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SPILL DRILL

Thursday, October 23, 2025 Constructed by Fred Piscop 76 clues
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Across

  1. Food with altered DNA 3 ℓ
  2. "I wonder ..." 3 ℓ
  3. Minimal ink 3 ℓ
  4. Some cards with pics 3 ℓ
  5. Miserly desire 7 ℓ
  6. Went downhill fast 5 ℓ
  7. A beginner in 5 ℓ
  8. Couch protector 9 ℓ
  9. Person-to-person 8 ℓ
  10. Grates on 4 ℓ
  11. Grind __ halt 3 ℓ
  12. Travel agent, often 11 ℓ
  13. Airport security container 3 ℓ
  14. Drive-thru device 3 ℓ
  15. Prohibition 3 ℓ
  16. Holiday lead-in 3 ℓ
  17. UK country 3 ℓ
  18. Deep black 3 ℓ
  19. Checker color 3 ℓ
  20. Toutes __ heures (hourly) 3 ℓ
  21. Director Howard 3 ℓ
  22. __ half bad 3 ℓ
  23. Be liable to 3 ℓ
  24. Watersport tool 3 ℓ
  25. Rocky Mtn. state 3 ℓ
  26. World Series 11 ℓ
  27. Retail proceeds 8 ℓ
  28. Campus building 4 ℓ
  29. Painter's protector 9 ℓ
  30. Highly concentrated 5 ℓ
  31. Elitist 5 ℓ
  32. Samoa's region 7 ℓ
  33. Alphabetic trio 3 ℓ
  34. Small footwear 6 ℓ
  35. Novelist Patchett 3 ℓ
  36. Laundry cycle 9 ℓ
  37. Adds to 3 ℓ
  38. Noggin 6 ℓ
  39. Machine tooth 3 ℓ
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Down

  1. Powderlike coffee beans 6 ℓ
  2. Highly moral man 7 ℓ
  3. Submits for a contest 7 ℓ
  4. Hymn cry 7 ℓ
  5. Sri Lanka export 3 ℓ
  6. Harry Potter pet 3 ℓ
  7. Grumpy coworker 3 ℓ
  8. Fifth-century pontiff 5 ℓ
  9. Handy person 5 ℓ
  10. "Truth be told..." 6 ℓ
  11. Carousing 7 ℓ
  12. They're all about the latest 7 ℓ
  13. Wood shaper 4 ℓ
  14. Made a point 6 ℓ
  15. Freudian study 6 ℓ
  16. Annoyance 5 ℓ
  17. Deep-seated 5 ℓ
  18. Synthetic fabric suffix 3 ℓ
  19. Aesop insect 3 ℓ
  20. Falsification 3 ℓ
  21. BLT alternative 3 ℓ
  22. D-Day craft 3 ℓ
  23. __ butter shampoo 4 ℓ
  24. Water pitcher part 5 ℓ
  25. Suite spot 5 ℓ
  26. Elk cousin 4 ℓ
  27. Turn over formally 4 ℓ
  28. Campus VIP 4 ℓ
  29. Clarinet kin 5 ℓ
  30. The same __ story 3 ℓ
  31. Canada's smallest territory 5 ℓ
  32. Military detachment 4 ℓ
  33. Cross-referencing phrase 7 ℓ
  34. Decisive 7 ℓ
  35. Staring vacantly 7 ℓ
  36. Exceeded, as a budget 7 ℓ
  37. "Is that even possible?" 7 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Thursday, October 23, 2025 is titled “SPILL DRILL” and was constructed by Fred Piscop. The puzzle features 76 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.

The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.

Newsday SPILL DRILL Crossword October 23 2025 Answers